This series presents a constructed scenario in which the people in these portraits are imagined to have disappeared during the Second World War, while only their photographs remain.

Each image is made in the darkroom using a luminogram, where a match is used as the light source to expose photosensitive paper without a camera.

The brief flare of the match functions as a symbolic stand‑in for a life that appears and then vanishes.

The work asks how we remember individuals when the photograph is the only surviving trace, and what happens when even that trace begins to fade.